SARA-KP Report Archive

Date	Name	Affiliation	Other Observers	Instrument	Hours Observed	Hours Lost	Reason	Observing Program
01/07/2024	Stephen Gillam	ERAU	Divyeshwari Vansadia	ARC Camera	4	6	Snow	Micro-variables in open clusters. Blowing snow, fog, high humidity. The weather stations available (WIYN 2.1-m etc.) don't work reliably. The SARA 0.9-m weather station doesn't work at all.
01/07/2024	Todd Vaccaro	Ball State University	n/a	ARC	4	7	Clouds	Eclipsing binary program. Radmin crashed several times on me and at one point I couldn't reach either the tele or the ccd machines and at the same time the KP weather pages and all sky camera pages were unreachable as well for about 15 minutes. Clouds were the primary loss of time.
01/03/2024	Todd Vaccaro	Ball State University	N/A	ARC	10	2	Clouds	Eclipsing binaries. clouds shut mnt down for about an hour late in the evening, but opened back up for the last couple hours. First bias was odd looking with dark vertical band in middle of frame (posted image on Discord), but the rest looked fine. On a previous night I took long/short flats and attempted to make a bad pixel map since there are a couple columns that appear bad, but they didn't come out in my maps, so maybe someone else could try and share? I have stellar comps that run into them over the course of the night as things meander.
12/30/2023	Gary D Henson	ETSU	Rutherford	CCD & Spectrograph	9	0	No problems to report	Massive Star Spectroscopy and M31 H-a monitoring
12/28/2023	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	6	0	No problems to report	M31, variable stars
12/27/2023	Gary D Henson	ETSU	none	spectrograph	0	9	Clouds	Thick cirrus clouds moved in around twilight, expected to stay most of night.
12/21/2023	Tom Rutherford	ETSU	None	CCD	7	0	No problems to report	No Problems. M31, variable stars.
12/20/2023	Gary D Henson	ETSU	none	Spectrograph	7	4	Humidity	Spectroscopy of Massive Stars - ACE didn't need night for engineering, checked out all systems after recent ccd glitch and overall observatory operation - Good
12/19/2023	Terry Oswalt	ERAU	n/a	Leach CCD	0	14	Clouds	Gyrochronology project. Did not open dome due to threatening clouds. No other telescopes on the mountain opened either.
12/18/2023	Walter Van Hamme	FIU	Samec	CCD	0	10	Clouds	There were clouds but since the camera was just reopened, the focus could have been very far off.
12/16/2023	Gary D Henson	ETSU	none	Spectrograph	7	0	No problems to report	Spectroscopy of Massive Stars, used night to verify Spectrograph still fully functioning as ARC ccd offline.
12/15/2023	Gary D Henson	ETSU	Shaw / Butler	CCD	1	9	Equipment Failure	ARC ccd lost communication after flat fields obtained. Continued to be unresponsive after several system restart/recycle tries. ACE notified.